The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-04-01
Woodlawn W. G. T. u.
Comm unicated.

lefS OF the w. v. i. ", mlSQC De H.
terested in the following summary of
of the work being done by the Wood
lawn ladies. Their Union is compar-
ativeIy new one, being organized last
August with twenty-six members.
Since the new year this number has
been nearly doubled, and through its
influence the interest in temperance
has been much advanced in the neigh
borhood.
In order to bring the young people
together socially under Christian tenn
rerance influence. the Union inaugerat-
ed a series of sociables, hel d fortnightly
at the homes of different members,
notice of two have been given in for
mer issue of the JOURNAL. Since then
three others have been held, one at Mr..
Edmund Browns on the evening of
Feb. 4th. The exercises are opened
with prayer, after which the program
consisting of select temperance reading
dialogues, and music, with time for So
cial intercourse, is enjoyed, and then
comes refreshments of cake and pure
water. At the Sociable held at MIR. Mar
shali's, formerly "Battle Swamp"
hotel, the entertainment committee
had specially interesting program,
and as the opening music of Corona
tion' rang through those halls, which
only few years ago resounded with
the maudlin round of drunken mirth,
the heart of every temperance advocate
was inspired with thankfnlness, chat
no longer licensed liquor saloon threw
IFS blight over our fair county. rhe
Union had secured Mr.. Toy of Balti-
more who gave short address, pictur
ing some of the evils of intemperance
in the city. Mr.. Toy conducted the
services on the Sunday following in
Hopewell Church by giving his ex per-
fence with liquor drinking, and the in
tense interest to which he was listened.
as he portrayed how step by step he was
brought from respectability and afflu-
ence down to degradation and poverty,
by the drink habit. and how he was re
deemed not only from drink, but nat
ural depravity, by the gospel of Christ,
attested the depth of feeling his address
stirred in the hearts of his hearers. The
Iast Sociable was held at Mr.. Martin
Thompson's, where after peasant and
profitable time spent the company were
invited to attend a similar meeting to-
night at Mr.. John Fishers. The aver.
age attendance at the Sociables is from
sixty to eighty, including the youth
and some of more mature age, of the
neighborhood.
In compliance with the request Of
Miss Frances Willard, President of the
National w. G. T. u, that all local
Unions would unite in prayer on March
29th for the success of the temperance
people of Michigan in their effort to
Danish the liquor traffic from their
state, the Woodlawn Union met and
did what we could to advance thecause
we advocate.
The Union has secured Mrs. Martin
$50 we'll and iavorbly known through
out the county by her lecture in behalf
of our prohibiatory law last fall to be
with us in April, and Mrs. Caro- line
Torbert,, a temperance evan gelist in
May, and hope that through them the
standard of temperance may be raised
in our midst. Ana now few words
through these columns to the gentle
men of our neighborhood who say
we are Only strong minded pomen who
want to vote, etc. 1 think l voice the
sentiment OF the Woodlawn L Mon
and probably of every Union, local,
county, state and national, in saying
our work is to Influence fathers, hus-
bands and brothers to legislate and
vote intellige .tlv and conscientiouslv
tor we feel confident that when intel
ligence and enlightened con, cience
handle the ballots King AIcoho' is sure
to be dethroned. So brothers, it ali rests
with you whether we want 10 vote or
not, for only when you refuse to be iptiu-
enced will we enter plea for suffrage.
Homes must he protected, the saloon
must 60" if no other way than through
woman suffrage. H. II. K.